Naidoo confession admitted

Mathew Naidoo grabbed the left side of his chest and battled to breathe yesterday when he saw photos of the murdered Johan and Riekie Lotter.

Naidoo, accused of being the mastermind of the murders, was under cross-examination during a trial within a trial on the admissibility of his confession.

He gasped when he saw the photos and the court adjourned for a few minutes.

Naidoo wiped his face with a face cloth and began to cry.

After the adjournment, Judge Shyam Gyanda ruled that Naidoo's confession was admissible. In the confession, Naidoo said his former girlfriend, Nicolette Lotter, had told him that she and her brother, Hardus, had been "sexually mistreated" by their parents.

"Since then I made them to believe that I am the son of God and that their parents were evil and that God wanted their parents dead. I started sending SMS messages to both parents, basically telling them that their days are gone.

"At first it was a joke but it escalated to become serious," he said.

In his confession, he said he bought a stun gun and told Nicolette to shock her parents with it and use a hypodermic syringe to inject air into their veins to kill them.

"I bought two tickets to the movies that was supposed to be my alibi," he said.

In his confession, Naidoo said, later that night he and the Lotter siblings used the stun gun on Riekie.

"She fell but started fighting back. I told Nicolette to stab her mother with the syringe. She did not have the courage to do it and I grabbed her hand and stabbed the mother in the neck area, breast area and arm.

"Hardus was holding his mother down but also didn't have the courage and I then took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed the mother in the neck and chest four times. The mother went still and after that I told Hardus to write the letter on computer."

Naidoo said he went to the Pavilion shopping centre with Nicolette.

"When we went home, we found Hardus there. I also found the father in the hallway. He was dead with a cord around his neck. I do not know who killed him. Hardus was still at home but did not give me any explanation."

He said he had planned the "premeditated murder of Mrs Lotter".

"It was done by the manipulation of her two children based on their faith".